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Showing posts with label unusual bikes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unusual bikes. Show all posts

Sunday, November 7, 2010

What Is It!?!



It's an exercise bike. Take a look at the website, if you're having serious doubts. Its price tag is US$10,000.00. An Italian designer and professor of graphic and computer arts named Luca Schiepatti produced this fashionable item.

It comes across to me as a piece of art or sculpture that a wealthy collector would purchase and place in a prominent part of his penthouse or mansion that would serve far more as a conversation-piece among his equally wealthy admiring guests, than it would as functional fitness equipment.

I have to say though, it's one nice-looking piece of artwork that would take up a very small footprint wherever it's kept. The makers say that the seat and handlebars are adjustable and that a display is located at the top of the one stationary wheel.
YouTubing the bike turned up videos that were all essentially the same and not providing what I was looking for—a run-down of the display's features, info on the amount of resistance the bike can provide and a demo of someone exercising on it (not that one with a model in a mini dress grinning uselessly and pedaling slowly).

Here's a short video (in Italian) of the bike on display with two others. If you can understand Italian, I'd be interested in knowing what the guy's saying.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Unusual Bikes – The Yike Bike

Imagine that! You can re-invent the wheel[s] a New Zealand engineer certainly has!

Take a look at this very, very nice folding electric bike with anti-skid brakes and weighing only 22 pounds! View all the videos about this bike, they're just a few minutes each. It's bound to catch your attention!

The Discovery Channel short feature on it:
http://www.yikebike.com/site/gallery/video/yikebike-discovery-channel

And here's an advertisement:


See how it performs riding over a grill, up a steep gravel hill and road, across wet grass and more.


A point to note: Do always wear a helmet.